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senategabe.bsky.social • 10 days ago

It sounds to me like lots of people have decided that the only way to fight Trump is to not fight him.

Which is objectively fucking stupid.

Reposted from Ann M. Lipton

"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"

Something something in advance

www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

Comments

alleged-human.bsky.social•10 days ago

Trump won’t back off until there’s push back. That’s how he works. He’ll tweet about how he’s the worst treated president ever but he’ll back off.

youtackything.bsky.social•10 days ago

Is invoking the Insurrection Act considered "martial law"?

melari.bsky.social•10 days ago

It would require defining down "martial law" to "use of the military to address domestic unrest." But otherwise no, because it doesn't involve the suspension of the civilian legal system.

youtackything.bsky.social•10 days ago

That's what I figured. Invoking the Insurrection Act is *absolutely* something Trump will do at the first sign of protests that include any disorder whatsoever. And we should protest anyway.

ergonomicpenguin.bsky.social•10 days ago

Don't want to fight one particular battle? Fine, rest up - nobody can fight all the battles themselves.

Want to fight a different battle instead? Great, have at it.

But telling other people not to fight a given battle IS fighting that battle yourself, for the other side.

ergonomicpenguin.bsky.social•10 days ago

For clarity, arguments like "I think X is a better way to resist than Y because [reasons]" are great, because the text and subtext and intent are focusing, energizing, supportive of resistance.

"Don't do X, it's bad/stupid/uncivilized/unpleasant/unpopular" is enervating support of the fascist coup.

d4fords.bsky.social•10 days ago

Dems need to take a lesson from those demonstrating daily in Georgia against authoritarian rule and Russia. Everbody has a dog in this fight worldwide, even MAGAts, once they, or IF, they figure it out...

lakecounty1975.bsky.social•10 days ago

I spent eight years fighting him. Voters chose him anyway. Some of us are just out of ideas.

senategabe.bsky.social•10 days ago

You fought him maybe.

The elites who are saying there is nothing left to do didn't do shit.

senategabe.bsky.social•10 days ago

We are aware that martial law is an extremely costly activity that is not good for a dictator right?

claycopper.bsky.social•10 days ago

Martial law in the NCR is basically a Mad King delusion, speaking nothing of a logistically and practically impossible nationwide attempt. You could get people to voluntarily put a damn mask on while hundreds of thousands died around them. People are really gone just accept a sunset curfew?

melari.bsky.social•10 days ago

Step 1: Alienate everyone in the military, intelligence services, and national bureaucracy.
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Martial law!

legalminimum.bsky.social•10 days ago

To say nothing of: if he thought the Army would do things for him, he’d be using them already. But the most he has done is send a bunch of Marines to the Mexican border to stand around.

mefcorv.bsky.social•10 days ago

There's a *lot* of signs that the Army is not his biggest fan right now. Maybe next time don't send a drunk National Guard staff O-4 to wave his dick around and tell them that they shouldn't have black people in it.

peppermintjack.bsky.social•10 days ago

I think the army officer corps is extremely buttoned down small c conservative, not really a fan of trump, but will absolutely follow his legal orders

so the fact that the official army twitter account quote tweeted a libsoftiktok post attacking the TJAG for DEI programs seems like a high concern

peppermintjack.bsky.social•10 days ago

if attacking the JAG corps is the prelude to trying to push the careerists out and replace them with lawyers who will sign off on this admin's attempts to use the army domestically that's where things could start getting reaalll dicey

mefcorv.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah, but it’s actually really hard to push people out of the Army when you’re not actually in the Army.

mefcorv.bsky.social•10 days ago

That was only after the army Twitter was taken over - it’s no longer being handled by a soldier. Grosser, but I would actually view it as a good sign rather than a bad.

peppermintjack.bsky.social•10 days ago

it looks like whoever was controlling the army account changed on Friday. do we know that it's now being controlled by DOGE or some other civilian group?

nmwilkinson.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah at some point stopping this prob involves forcing a showdown with whatever forces Trump can muster
Today, I doubt the army/nat guard would fire on civilians but post purge and a year or two down the line, they might

pukarocks.bsky.social•10 days ago

i highly doubt our military will turn on us. they just lost their benefits for the VA he just opened the books for people with needs to be angry.

foreverambre.bsky.social•10 days ago

I’ve seen a couple of people local to me call for martial law in the last few days. To get people to stop committing crime 🙃 A lot of his people are so invested in the paternalistic cult, they’d probably willingly submit. I’d hope the casual voters would be much smarter.

senategabe.bsky.social•10 days ago

Seriously, what is the point of being an activist group or an opposition party if the first sign of any of danger you run for the hills???

This is some Brave Sir Robin shit right here.

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dulcet-abyssal.bsky.social•10 days ago

at the rate enlisted are being removed/not recruited that's gonna make it even harder. this will be accomplished with police.

violiav.bsky.social•10 days ago

I’m telling ya, even locally folks expressed that they were afraid to meet in public. I was like “why these people are cowards.”

nicethiccbackpack.bsky.social•10 days ago

Take a lesson from Trump. There is power in being a target.

kovarchi.bsky.social•10 days ago

“If we just let the bear maul us to death I’m sure it will work out fine.”

solisandlune.bsky.social•10 days ago

Just let the bear maul us to death, the bear will look bad, and we'll finally get more seats after midterm!

bishopwhitewind.bsky.social•10 days ago

Y'all just need to know every single thing every single time. This was the line of the mainstream Democrat establishment in the United States and I mean every single time for at least the 20 years I've been active.
Every
Single
Time

samoart.bsky.social•10 days ago

Of course we have to fight. We have to wake people up and then fight.

ellawbr.bsky.social•10 days ago

The fire’s just getting too hot for the Model UN dorks in charge of the progressive movement.